🎮🕹️💻 Remembering My Childhood Video Game Store 🎮🕹️💻 #RetroGaming

Sitting down in lockdown 3 watching some rubbish on the TV whilst reading Retro Gamer Magazine late at night I was dreaming of the time when we could walk into shops and browse video games and then my mind wandered off to when I was an 11-year-old boy who would visit LOGIC Computers in Cheshunt Hertfordshire to buy my Atari XE/XL tapes and cartridges for my ATARI XEGS.

🕹️🎮📅 Name A Year and I Will Name 4 Video Games (1979 to 2020) 🕹️🎮📅 #RetroGaming #GamersUnite

I saw this cool trend on Twitter whereby you name 4 games from any requested year.

I thought it would be a good idea to compile my 4 games from every year of my life so far...so here goes!

🍕🕹️ PAC-MAN: Birth Of An Icon | Gorgeous New Pac Man History Book Available For Pre Order! 🕹️🍕 @cookbeck #PacMan #RetroGaming

Here's some really exciting news for all you PAC fans out there!

The First-Ever Official History Book on PAC-MAN is Now Available For Pre-Order!

Cook and Becker have announced its gorgeous, hardcover retrospective, the first-ever history of PAC-MAN. 

PAC-MAN: Birth of an Icon is made in conjunction with BANDAI NAMCO Entertainment Inc. and researched and written by Arjan Terpstra and Tim Lapetino. 

🎨🎮 Badly Drawn Video Games Consoles - 4. Nintendo Entertainment System 🎨🎮 #Retrogaming #NES

Some days I find myself trying to draw stuff in MS Paint and those are the days when I manage to produce BADLY DRAWN VIDEO GAMES CONSOLES!

My plan is to draw as many badly drawn consoles as I can in 2021.

Let's see how far I get...

Rich

🎨🎮 Badly Drawn Video Games Consoles - 2. Atari 2600 🎨🎮 #Retrogaming #Atari2600

 

Some days I find myself trying to draw stuff in MS Paint and those are the days when I manage to produce BADLY DRAWN VIDEO GAMES CONSOLES!

My plan is to draw as many badly drawn consoles as I can in 2021.

Let's see how far I get...

(The last time I did this was in February 2020, hopefully, I will do more than one per year going forward!)

Rich

🎮🎄 The Best Video Games Console Christmas Presents From 1979 to 2001 🎮🎄 #Retrogaming #GamersUnite

So as we hurtle towards another Christmas in 2020 I thought it would be good to take a look at the best video games related Christmas presents from down the years.

These are either cool machines from when I was alive (I was born in 1979) or they are machines that I was lucky enough to get for Christmas.

My sister got a Pong machine in the early 80s for Christmas and I can barely remember it but after that Christmas, I was always eager for a Christmas video game or a console to be popped into my Christmas stocking.

There was the classic Christmas when I was desperate for a ZX Spectrum +2 but Dad got me an ATARI XEGS but I loved it! 

Christmas is a great time for a gamer as you seem to get that bit of extra downtime to play your new games before your next helping of cold turkey in a roll.

Let's kick off our Christmas look by hurtling back in time to December 1979...

🎰 "The First-Ever Retro Slot Machines Review" 🎰 #RetroGaming

There’s a side of retro gaming from the arcades scene that probably doesn’t get enough coverage and that is Retro Slot Machines from the ’80s and ’90s.

Whilst taking a retrogaming trip down memory lane my first thoughts will normally drift towards the likes of the Golden Axe arcade and Outrun games of the ’80s and the NBA Jam cabinets of the ’90s.

But nestled at the back of every arcade was and still is those fruit machines from the past that are forever etched in our memories with their flashing lights and awesome artwork emblazoned across the front of them.

As a kid, I was allowed to play the 10p slot machines and the 2p OXO machines and then as I grew up and visited pubs and bars more often I would play a few goes on the pub and kebab shop machines whilst waiting for my mates to get the drinks in.

So, which retro slot machines get my nostalgia gland working overtime?

Well, let’s see if I can give you 5 of the best retro slot machines from my childhood and teenage years so as you can see how far we’ve come from these retro slot machines right up until today’s online slots and you’ll also see how very similar to online slots these legends of the slots world are!

🕹️ @Lord_Arse Says: Competition Pro 5000. The best joystick ever made. Or do you disagree? What's your favourite joystick? 🕹️ #RetroGaming #Joystick

Competition Pro 5000. The best joystick ever made.

Or do you disagree? What's your favourite joystick? 🕹️ pic.twitter.com/nbvN4EW6J3

— Lord Arse! 🕹️ (@Lord_Arse) November 14, 2020

💣 My 13 Favourite Video Games Weapons 💣 #Retrogaming

A few days ago I decided to compile a list of my personal favourite video games weapons from over the years. 

These are the weapons that have stuck with me over the course of decades of gaming. 

They either have a special place in my heart or they are just damned cool.

Either way I've come up with 13 beauties, so let me know what your favourites are...

🐒🏝️ "Secrets of Monkey Island" charity event this Friday! 🐒🏝️ #RetroGaming #SecretOfMonkeyIsland

The Secret of Monkey Island turns 30 this October, and The Video Game History Foundation is celebrating by diving deep into its creation with Ron Gilbert...and the game's original source code!

⚽️📓 Championship Manager 2 - Nottingham Forest vs Chelsea - Episode 36: "Drama At The Bridge" ⚽️📓 #RetroGaming #ChampionshipManager #CreatorsUnite

Championship Manager 2 has been on my list of games to play on YouTube for years now and finally, I have pulled my finger out and taken the job of Nottingham Forest Manager.

Come see how my season unfolds in these short sharp Champ Manager vids.

🕹️🎮 Britt's Personal Top 20 Video Games 🕹️🎮 @BrittRecluseuk #RetroGaming #IndieGames

Introduction
I find any list of this type to be very fluid, listing the top twenty games of all time objectively would be impossible. 

What I’ve done here is to list the games that had the biggest impact on me across a broad spectrum of genres as possible and always come to mind during these types of conversations. 

I actually wrote out this list a couple of weeks ago and then returned to it later to see if it still felt ‘right’ and it did, so I stuck with it. 

Next month, who knows? It could be a different story. 

👾 Space Invaders | Invincible Collection | Nintendo Switch 👾 #RetroGaming #SpaceInvaders

Here's one for all you Space Invaders lovers out there...

TAITO and Strictly Limited Games announced what is reported to be the most complete Space Invaders collection on cartridge ever is coming to the Nintendo Switch.

Three limited, physical versions of the Space Invaders Invincible Collection will be available exclusively on strictlylimitedgames.com starting from Sunday June 28th. 

💥 UltraCore - The Digital Release Of A Salvaged Run & Gun Platformer From The '90s is Coming! 💥

Fans of retro games will find this unearthed treasure a must to check out. With its pedigree, development team and new and updated restoration, UltraCore is a real nostalgic sojourn!

ININ Games announced that they were now able to give fans of retro platformer games the opportunity to play Ultracore after more than two decades of waiting!

🚀👾 TWO New Darius Collections Are Coming! 16th June 2020 PS4/Switch (Console & Arcade Collection) 🚀👾 #Darius #RetroGaming

The Legendary Darius series pioneered horizontal Shoot 'Em Up Games and was developed by the TAITO Corporation.

The first Darius game was a hit when it was released in 1986 with its dedicated dual-display cabinet, imaginative enemy designs and revolutionary sound design.

The first Darius is set in a futuristic 2D world, where the player pilots a Silver Hawk craft alone, or with a second player, and shoots their way through enemy hordes, navigating tricky terrain and battling giant robotic sea creatures. 

💎 Clockwork Aquario - A Lost Arcade Gem From 1992 Unearthed! 💎 #Arcade #RetroGaming

Here's some exciting news about a video game that nearly never came to light and as a bonus, it's from the talented people at Westone that made the Wonder Boy series!

Strictly Limited Games and ININ Games announced today that Clockwork Aquario will be released in 2020 - after being lost for 27 years!

🕹️ The Top 10 Best Selling Arcade Games Of The 1980s 🕹️ #Retrogaming #Arcade #Retrogames

Here's a Top 10 Of The Best Selling Arcade Games Of The 1980s

Can you guess who comes steaming in at Number 1?

🕹️ I Played That At My Mate's House 🕹️ #Retrogaming #C64 #Commodore64

When I chart back my journey through video games over the years and I think back to my childhood years of playing video games a pivotal moment in video games always took place at a mates house. 

From my first moments of seeing a Spectrum to the point where I realised I needed a PC these moments were all borne from a visit to a friend’s house who had the latest console or the coolest game of the time.

So let’s get into my own personal time machine and head on back to those key moments from when I was growing up and discovering video games for the first time.

💻🖥️💾🖱️ Paper Craft Computers and Super Mario Bros Demakes From @rockasoo 💻🖥️💾🖱️ #PaperCraft #RetroGaming

Construct the retro computer or console from your childhood or build an entire retro computer museum at home with these FREE papercraft models, free to download and share.
Print, Cut, Score, Fold and Glue.

🎮 Why I Love The PlayStation 2... 🎮 #Playstation2

Imagine there was a video game console that sold 157 million units...

Well actually there is a console that sold over 157 million units and its name is the Playstation 2.